Yahya ibn Abd al-Aziz

Yahya ibn Abd al - Aziz (Arabic يحيى بن عبد العزيز, DMG Yahya b. ʿ Abd al - ʿ Azeez ) was from 1121 to 1152, the ninth ruler of the Hammadids in Algeria.

Yahya became the successor of Abd al - Aziz ibn al - Mansur (1104-1121) at the Hammadidenreich. The economy of the empire in Algeria had now largely converted to the maritime trade in the Mediterranean and resulted in a considerable economic prosperity in the port cities. However, this also led to attacks by the Christians. So Dschirdscheli was in 1143 conquered and sacked by the Sicilian Normans. Although the hinterland lost for Hammadids important, some control over the Bedouin and Berber tribes could be maintained.

The downfall of the empire still could not be prevented because of the Almohads in Morocco, a new powerful dynasty arose, which had already conquered the 1145 western Algeria. 1151 began the Almohad Abd al - Mumin with the attack on the Hammadidenreich and defeated Yahya before Bougie ( 1152 ). Algeria was annexed to the Almohadenreich. Yahya went into honorable exile to Sale, where he died.